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...start of highway construction took a few hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
...local boards appointed by Britain's municipal councils, many of which have just been captured by Labor in sweeping gains at the last municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 13). A central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established by Queen Elizabeth. Able-bodied dole applicants could be sent, at the discretion of the government board, to "vocational training centres...
...capable, intelligent Dr. Nutting devoted herself to religious education of the young after graduating from Iowa University. She took a Doctor's degree at Boston University, taught ethics at Boston before going to Dayton five years ago. She organized and operated the self-help units, got 4,000 jobless to enroll. Last winter Economist Ralph Borsodi, who had set up a private subsistence farm at Suffern, N. Y. when he lost his money in the depression of 1921. went to Dayton, suggested a back-to-the-farm movement for the unemployed. Dayton's response was immediate. Under...
Last week the first chill of the fifth Depression Winter hung in the air. While the Federal Government was preparing to bring relief to 3,253,000 jobless families (1,500,000 less than last year) on a scale unparalleled since hard times began, in Manhattan President Roosevelt made a speech which warned the nation that the Government could not possibly handle the job alone, that local governments and private charity would again have to do their share...
...Public Health Service entered the relief field when it announced that it would cooperate with FSRC in the employment of jobless men in the South to work on mosquito abatement projects this winter...